BITING THE HAND. The chickens are coming home to roost in Wisconsin, where the state government, much like Illinois's, spent money in the late 1990s as if the capital gains tax revenues would go on forever. Reality intrudes. The University of Wisconsin administrators must retrench. State Assembly speaker John Gard, a Republican from Peshtigo, compares and contrasts this year's retrenchment with last: "It is not going unnoticed that the UW approached Democrat cuts differently than Republican cuts." Note the narrow focus of the University's latest diversity plan. No GOP Safe Space here.

The students are raising objections to the University's proposed tuition increases. Meanwhile, Linda Weimer, the University of Wisconsin System's (note: the central administration, not to be confused with the University of Wisconsin in Madison or any other city) says, "We don't have too many friends in the Legislature, and I'd like to know why because we're not bad people doing bad things to the state." Ms. Weimer, just look at the agit-prop in the Alumni Association publications, and the predominance of court intellectuals for the left wing of the Democratic party among your faculty, and then apologize for that statement.